ASSIMILATION AND CHANGES IN COHORT QUALITY REVISITED - WHAT HAPPENED TO IMMIGRANT EARNINGS IN THE 1980S

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: BORJAS, GJ
• 署名单位: National Bureau of Economic Research
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/298373
• 发表日期: 1995
• 页码: 201-245
• 关键词: wages

摘要

This article uses the 1970, 1980, and 1990 Public Use Samples of the U.S. census to document what happened to immigrant earnings in the 1980s and to determine if pre-1980 immigrant flows reached earnings parity with natives. The relative entry wage of successive immigrant cohorts declined by 9% in the 1970s and by an additional 6% in the 1980s. Although the relative wage of immigrants grows by 10% during the first 2 decades after arrival, recent immigrants will earn 15%-20% less than natives throughout much of their working lives.